Social Wealth

Here's the interior of the latest Mercedes S Class. It has selectable colour mode lighting, hot stone massage seats (yep, really does), and ionised and essential oil-spiked filtered air.

New S-Class Merc martini bar on wheels

When you have a lot of money, much more than you would require to meet the basic necessities of life, then you have to think about frivolities such as the latest S Class. For me this will be like, next week or thereabouts, so I have to watch all the video ads Mercedes releases – and amazingly, they appear to show the Germans now have a strong sense of humour. One of the ads on Youtube, titled 'ordinary people's responses to the new S Class' has several women jumping in and out getting lifts here and there across Chicago heading to whatever nightclub back-alley entrance they want to go to, and making small talk about the niceties of the car along the way. V. droll.

It all starts out in the mind though, doesn't it? Wealth comes from inside your mind. Whether there are women around today who feel comfortable to go to any of the dozen or so 'world's best martini bars' alone, I do not exactly know, as I have not been to ALL twelve of these bars (or twelve hundred, really, since the appellation is open to a lot of dispute and is highly contested). But they should do. It is the mark of any sophisticated person, male or female, to be able to feel comfortable within themselves to do so.

Not my grandmother - but close!

My grandmother rode side-saddle, fenced, and could shoot pistols too. She went out to South Africa all on her own to teach when she was only a young woman; she was an independent-minded person. Daughter of a captain on the White Star Line, and at one point she was all-Highland dance champion for the Highland Sword Dance...

I suppose because we live in a day and age in which government policy has the direct capacity to wreck whole economies – internationally through reserve-building by third world countries benefitting through quantitative easing, and domestically because politicians are at the same time utterly mindless, fat-headed, lacking in imagination about ways to spark growth, and greedy about the amounts of all of our time they take up preaching nonsense – because of all of this the individual occasionally loses sight of the real way ahead.

Look, if the visible way ahead cannot be traversed in a new Mercedes S Class, then don't go that way. The way to wealth begins in any event surely within one's own mind – and there is no point utilising second-rate thoughts, ideas, principles, and teachings, to travel the pathways of the mind.

You have the choice as to whether you will use a Rolls Royce, a Bentley, a Mercedes, or even a brand new Corvette (a great car, by the way) to drive to the mansion of the professor residing within the gated estates of your own mind. Never jump quickly to conclusions, is the moral of that – and personally I am never daunted by the potential of a confronting truth around any corner either.

People around the place, presently, for instance, think there will never be another Crash.

But there will be. It will come from the imbalances of liquidity when external reserve building begins to really bite against the United States, which was the source of the QE bubble factory fake money demand. The demand was fake, but the money real. Macro economists understand that problems of politics and national management stem from disruptions of the smooth flow between the generation of liquidity from long term capital, versus the needs of the velocity of cash circulation in the shorter term balance sheets of trade. And good politicians further understand that the ultimate recipient of smooth flows, is the human person, and the social body of people on the national spectrum of political civil society. Yes, I am talking like George here. His theory is right enough. His associations these days are dubious, that's all, not his original ideas.

A real London Martini, is not for girls

People, are the key. Human people (this is a French idiomatic expression that puts the stress on the word 'human'). Miss that point now and you will miss the excitement of the next several years.